(or 2!) Dying of old age, can you actually DIE because of the body being worn out, or is it always a disease or such? I read that if we cure every disease, we would live hundreds of years.

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Title! I don’t get it. Isn’t my finger getting worn from just being used for too long? Or will it eventually get worse because of something else?

In: Biology

Answer 1

non medical answer here, my mother is 90 years old, she has been in the hospital once since I was born 60 years ago. However, she uses a walker and gets winded walking from one end of the house to the other. I would say her body is wearing out….I guess if curing disease would keep it wearing out so fast then maybe we could live longer but I would think it would take more than just curing disease to make us live 100s of years.